The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE bill legaliZDg Saturday half holidays dur
ing the summer months has passed the New
York Legislature, and will of course be Signed
by Gov Hill A similar bill is before the Penn
sylvania Legislature.
In Panarnint Valley, Inyo county, CAL.
is a very large ledge OF anthony ore. The
metal was recently quoted in London at $3.50
ton yet no effort has ever been made 10 do any
thing with this deposit
A BROOKLYN JUDGE has just decided against
shoe dealer who brought suit against former
sreclbra~ II 70, ga for shoes furnished her, the
court beneving the defendants statement taat
they were tokens OF love.
TIRE estate of Dusiane, Scotland is in the
market for sale. 1t belongs to Mr.. W. NJ. Marine.
whose family has owned it for some hundreds
of years 1t comprises Dusiane Hill, the sup
posed site of Macbeths castle
THE effect of prohibition in Iowa is that sgns
appear on numerous suspicious looking shanties
in the back country reading: ''Druck Sto,"
''Drog Stoar, " "Drugg Slower etc. The injury
done the English language alone by prohibition
will be felt by the people of that State for at
least fifty years.
NEWSPAPER CARRIER at Altoona, Pa, was
knocked down one morning recently by an I'm
known man, who took his papers way from the
carrier, lighted box of matches. threw the
papers on them, and then hurried of. The car:
| rier rescued his papers, and now So is offered
for the arrest OF the villain.
THE late Baron du Menil, of Brussels, left as
he supposed, fortune of only few thousand
| dollars, and directed that after paying some
legacies all the remainder should be spent on his
| tomb, 1t has since been discovered that, I'M
| knowingly, he had a fortune of more than $780,
| 0o0 and the courts have been asked to decide
| whether all that must be spent on mausoleum.
| SEVERAL YEARS AGO few deer were let loose
| on the mountains east of Bennington, and since
| that an effort has been made to enforce the law
| forbdding anyone TO kill deer in Vermont The
result IS that already here and there throughout
| the State deer are seen, and as the law has
| three years to run it is quite likely that the
| Green Mountains may, in time, be well stocked.
| II the British Museum historical works are
bound in red, theological in blue, poetical in
| yellow, and books on natural history in green.
! Besides this each part Of a volume is stamped
| with a mark by which it can be distinguished as
| their property, and of different colors; thus red
| indicates that book wGs purchased blue that
| it came by copyright, and yellow that it was
presented.
THE proprietor of a large wholesale hat and
| cap store in Chicago is boy only II years old.
| The boy father had owned the store, but hav-
| ing other business, as well as not wishing to
| carry them both in his own name presented
| the establishment to his 11-year-old son. The
| father still exercises general control, but the
legal head of the firm, signer of checks and man
| of authority is the son.
JOHN ANsoN and his wife, of Bennettsville,
Ky lived happily together for thirty years, and
| then Mrs. Arson decided that she wanted a cab
| met organ. John declined to buy one, and
| thereupon the wife tried to drown herself by
| jumping into the waters of the Muddy Fork
| She was fished out unframed, and John was so
| disguised that he at once quit home, and has
| not been seen there since.
THE bark louise, or scale bug, is injuring and
killing apple trees in a number of towns in Mag
| ara county n. Y, One farmer had an orchard
oft
| were seen TO be dying, and when they were in
| spected this spring it was found that there ex-
| listed on some of the limbs germ that contains
| the eggs of the insect. On Matching out in the
spring they bore holes in the inner bark and kill
| the tree.
Two YEARS AGO the Office of Inspector of Fur
niture for the Treasury Department was created.
| Secretary Manning persistently refused to up
point any one to the Office. A. F. NJ. Billingslea,
| of Virginia, has just received the position. A
! salary of 5000 a year and travelling expenses
are the rewards of the office. The department
| should now have an Inspector of Stationery a
| Superintendent of Cigarettes, a Chief Clerk of
the Iced Water Department, and Standing
| Committee on Fresh Air-with appropriate
salaries
| A MONUMENT is about to be erected at Temir
Khan-Sehoura, in Central ASIA to the memory
of Agaphon Mikitin, Russian artilleryman,
who was killed at Geek Tepe. Having been i'm
prisoned by the TelIeS, Mikitin refused to fight
against his competriots, although he was sub
| jected to the cruelesl fortunes He~ died after
his fingers had been cut off and his back scalded
Another monument to the brave soldier has
been erected in his native. village in Poland in
the form of q Russian church. toward the de-
corations of which the Gar contributed 5000
roubleS.
IT is said that when Alexander Mitchell was
banker in Milwaukee there was ouce run on his
bank. On the second day of the run an old
Scotchman entered the bank, covered with mud
and carrying pair of saddlebags. He could not
gain access to Mr.. Mitchell on account of the
crowd, but he shouted out to him. holding up
the saddlebags: "Aleck, mon, heard We hod a
room on yer bank, and bring ye all have, mon
$4,000 il gold" The crowd contemplated the
old Scotchman for a moment, and then began to
drop out of the line, and in less than an hour the
run had ceased.
A GROCER at Beaver Falls is said to have a dog
that eats no fat meat, and lives entirely on
sweet cakes, crackers, sugar, chewing gum, ETC.
When baby dog he was called Snipe, from a
fancied resemblance he bore to an Old cipar
stump; but one day the family went off on a
visit to the country, and accidentally left poor
Snipe locked up in the house without food or
water. In forty days the family returned.
They found Snipe. He was alive, but that was
all. For forty-three days he did not have q bite
to eat or drop to drink He recovered from
his long fast, and ever since hiss been called Tan
ner
THERE is decimal clock in Wiesbaden which
- NOuSJi oil Inc IOlIOWlnS principle. Inc
day has 10 hours, the hour 10 decades each de-
cade 10 minutes, each minute 10 seconds and
each second 10 rays-thus dividing the whole
day into 100000 parts A similar division is to
be applied 70 the circle Herr Moder, of that
city goes still further, and proposes to divide
the year into 10 months-the even months Of
b. the uneven ones of 81 days each The ad-
vantageS OF this decimal system are placed in
evidence, and the inventor hopes to see the same
adopted before long in spite of the present op-
position.
AMONG the Chinese who came off on a return
certificate was one giving the name of LELAND
Stanford" His luggage was marked in that
name. He was formerly an employee of the
Senator. He was accompanied by his wife who
TO all appearances, as she toddled down the
gang plank, was rotund matron. Inspectress
kIncaid thought that the pseudo Mrs Stanford
was extremely bulky in her dress, and invited
the lady to secret investigation. The inspec-
treSs removed what she supposed to be Mrs
StanfOrd's dress. When the article WINS taken
off Mrs. Stanford was still dressed though in
suit of different color aud texture. So marvel
ling the inspectress drew off the garment
Another dress of even finer satin was revealed
Mrs. Stanford wore seven suits
The maguey plant of Mexico has many uses
1t is eaten cut up and preserved like melon rinds
Its long tough fibre ID very extensively used in
making ropes and cordage. The end of each
Loaf Sam fN .